Arthur D. Stein Jr.

LAKEVILLE — Arthur D. Stein Jr., 99, who spent many years in the Lakeville area, taught at Indian Mountain School and helped manage the Sharon Country Club in the late 1960s and 1970s, died peacefully at an assisted living facility in Fairhope, Ala., on Aug. 4, 2012. “Art” Stein was born and raised in Waterbury and later worked for the American Brass Co. there. Mr. Stein graduated from Wooster School, in Danbury, in 1932. A standout athlete in football, ice hockey and baseball, as well as an honors student, Mr. Stein also took up lacrosse at Hobart College and quickly made a name for himself in that sport, too, captaining the 1936 team and winning All-American honors. At the outbreak of World War II, Mr. Stein joined the Navy, which commissioned him a lieutenant and deployed him as a metals expert to its shipbuilding yard in Philadelphia. He was called up again for the Korean War. His parents lived in Falls Village for many years. His father, also named Arthur, represented Canaan in the General Assembly in the late 1950s and early 1960s. After several years away from Connecticut, Mr. Stein returned to the area in 1966 and began teaching and coaching at Indian Mountain School. His marriage to Janet Judson Platt, also of Waterbury, had ended in divorce. In 1967, he married Irma Deneher, manager of the Sharon Country Club. Mr. Stein became the “pro” and they managed the club together. Later they also managed the Institute of World Affairs’ school, in the Taconic section of Salisbury, until retiring to Florida in 1984. Mr. Stein is survived by a longtime companion, Dottie Martin of Fairhope; a daughter, Susan Timperley of Foley, Ala.; two sons, David of Loudon, Tenn., and Jeffrey of Washington, D.C.; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Susan Timperley and her husband, Bruce, also lived in Lakeville in the 1960s. Mr. Stein willed that his ashes be buried in the family plot at Grassy Hill Cemetery in Falls Village. A private family memorial service will be held in Bridgton, Maine, where Mr. Stein once owned the local golf club and where his many descendants have long summered.